Simple E Commerce Shopping Cart: Cross-site request forgery
Simple E Commerce Shopping Cart is affected by cross-site request forgery. Exposure depends on how the affected operation is made reachable by the site. Exploitation relies on a signed-in privileged user submitting an attacker-controlled request.
- Component
- Simple E Commerce Shopping Cart
- Plugin slug
simple-e-commerce-shopping-cart- Affected
- See vendor advisory
- Safe version
- See mitigation notes
- Published
- Sep 13, 2021
This CVE was published Sep 13, 2021 and is one of 3 known issues for this plugin.
Update, patch or deactivate.
Update Simple E Commerce Shopping Cart to a release outside the affected range, or disable and remove it until a fixed version is available.
No confirmed safe version is listed. Consider a vendor-supported patch or temporarily restricting the affected functionality while you assess the risk.
Deactivate only when warranted by your risk profile, or when advised by your hosting provider in the limited circumstances where the vulnerability cannot otherwise be mitigated. If you’re unsure which action is appropriate, contact Fused or your hosting provider for guidance.
Technical description
The WordPress Simple Ecommerce Shopping Cart Plugin- Sell products through Paypal plugin through 2.2.5 does not check for the uploaded Downloadable Digital product file, allowing any file, such as PHP to be uploaded by an administrator. Furthermore, as there is no CSRF in place, attackers could also make a logged admin upload a malicious PHP file, which would lead to RCE
NVD vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H